- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- M9315
- People
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After Winslow Homer, American (Boston, MA 1836 - 1910 Prouts Neck, ME)
Engraved by Unidentified Artist
- Title
- The Approach of the British Pirate "Alabama"
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Harper's Weekly, vol. VII, no. 330, April 25, 1863
- Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1863
- Culture
- American
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Wood engraving and letterpress on off-white laid paper
- Technique
- Wood engraving and letterpress
- Dimensions
- image: 35 × 23.3 cm (13 3/4 × 9 3/16 in.)
sheet: 40.6 × 27.4 cm (16 × 10 13/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: below image, printed: THE APPROACH OF THE BRITISH PIRATE "ALABAMA."
- inscription: above image, printed: 268 HARPER'S WEEKLY. [April 25, 1863.
- inscription: lower left, in block: HOMER Del
- Provenance
- W. G. Russell Allen, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1938
- State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
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- Standard Reference Number
- Foster 67
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of W. G. Russell Allen
- Accession Year
- 1938
- Object Number
- M9315
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Colleen Walsh, "The Artist as Witness", The Harvard Gazette (September 13, 2019), e-journal, https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/09/winslow-homers-work-as-civil-war-art-correspondent-focus-of-eyewitness-exhibit-at-harvard/, accessed September 17, 2019
- Exhibition History
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Winslow Homer: Eyewitness, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2019 - 01/05/2020
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This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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M9315
The Approach of the British Pirate "Alabama"
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